A pride hard to verbalize shudders through me every time I see this film footage of my Dad’s crew members disembarking from the Veterans Air Line DC-4 in Prague. Saunie Gravely was 22 when he got the idea of an all-Veterans air service. And this amazing footage is proof of his dream-become-reality. Come watch. Sorry, no popcorn today.
1946 film of UNRRA Prague crew arrival Read More »
From: Paul Burton [Aditerum] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 5:55 AM To: Gaye Lyn Subject: Re: Whole article Gaye, Get your own copy and scan properly for the site… www.ebay.com/itm/AIR-TRAILS-PICTORIAL-April-1946-Street-Smiths-Publication-Navy-XLRQ-1-Glider-/381093226962 And you might find cheaper ones from here www.ebay.tv/sch/Magazine-Back-Issues-/280/i.html?_sop=2&_nkw=air+trails+pictorial&_frs=1 There’s one in this site for $2 – www.byrdaviationbooks.com/magAT_pg2.htm April 1946 and the listing shows Veteran
Dear Reader, These three email exchanges were five months into my now 11 year Veterans Air research. Not an excuse, but perhaps an understandable mistake given the to-be-determined further details regarding the first UNRRA Warsaw flight. In the 9/13/2015 email below, *I incorrectly state that “I already know that Captain Walker & Copilot Broughton led
FLYING mag reveals names. Copy permission suggested. Warsaw crew names were wrong. Read More »
The history of 1945 Veterans Air has recently attracted varied (and rather large, may I add?) aviation audiences as our research unfolds more crew, flight and non-sked era details.
1945 Non-sked garners storytelling invites Read More »
From: Gaye Lyn Sent: Friday, January 6, 2023 12:09 PM To: David H. Stringer Subject: Re: Your Article David, hi. You are so great to spend so much time on this. See if any of these three are new possibilities. The 3rd image (Founder-Pilot Jack Stettner) was sent to me in July 2015 by Al
“Not easy” capture. 76 year old history. Relatively small outfit. Read More »
From “Paul Burton [Aditerum]” To “Gaye Gravely” Date 10/3/2025 8:33:43 AM Subject veteransair.org/footnotes/ Gaye, I left you a little present in the footnotes page – browse first veteransair.org/footnotes/ Very simple to edit, before you squirm one side you add to the ending number and on the other subtract from the ending number. Looks good huh!
